Bride-to-Be Found Guilty of Murdering Fiance on Wedding Day

On Thursday, an eastern Pennsylvania woman was found guilty of first degree murder for stabbing her fiance to death just hours before their wedding last summer.

Na Cola Franklin, 32, stabbed her fiance, Billy Brewster, 36, several times last August 11 at approximately 2 a.m., eight hours before their scheduled wedding, reportedly after Brewster came home drunk from an unplanned bachelor party.

According to NBC Philadelphia, Franklin didn't realize she'd killed Brewster until later in the day; when she was arraigned that night, she reportedly told the judge, "You got to check again!" when she was informed of her fiance's death.

Franklin's defense attorney, John Waldron, claimed that Brewster had attacked Franklin that morning and threatened to leave with the couple's 9-month-old son. Waldron had sought reduced charges of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors argued, successfully, that the child was never in danger.

The gruesome scene was discovered by the pastor who was to marry the couple that morning. Throughout the day, wedding guests in suits and dresses reportedly showed up at Franklin's home.